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Timestamps

(00:00) - Intro

(01:00) - Writing Human Accomplishment

(06:30) - The Lotka curve, age, and miracle years

(10:38) - Habits of the greats (hard work)

(15:22) - Focus and explore in your 20s

(19:57) - Living in Thailand

(23:02) - Peace, wealth, and golden ages

(26:02) - East, west, and religion

(30:38) - Christianity and the Enlightenment

(34:44) - Institutional sclerosis

(37:43) - Antonine Rome, decadence, and declining accomplishment

(42:13) - Crisis in social science

(45:40) - Can secular humanism win?

(55:00) - Future of Christianity

(1:03:30) - Liberty and accomplishment

(1:06:08) - By the People

(1:11:17) - American exceptionalism

(1:14:49) - Pessimism about reform

(1:18:43) - Can libertarianism be resuscitated?

(1:25:18) - Trump's deregulation and judicial nominations

(1:28:11) - Beating the federal government

(1:32:05) - Why don't big companies have a litigation fund?

(1:34:05) - Getting around the Halo effect

(1:36:07) - What happened to the Madison fund?

(1:37:00) - Future of liberty

(1:41:00) - Public sector unions

(1:43:43) - Andrew Yang and UBI

(1:44:36) - Groundhog Day

(1:47:05) - Getting noticed as a young person

(1:50:48) - Passage from Human Accomplishment

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